Eight Hours - a documentary by Jonas Denzel
When will machines fully replace the human workforce? "Eight Hours" is a documentary that examines a single day of production inside a dry cleaning factory. The film investigates the interaction between humans and machines, where the worker's experience of simple repetitive labor is mirrored by the mechanical work of the factory robots. We explore an overlooked location full of colors, mechanical sounds, humans and machines.
Jury comment on winning "Short in Work" in Modena 2017:
For the capability to use the features of observational documentary. For the ability to turn the everyday gestures of a laundry into a sort of mechanical choreography. To have fostered our methodological reflection.
Directed, edited and filmed by Jonas Denzel
Thanks to
Heather L. Harad
Steve Carver
Arway Linen Team
Professor Tajiri
This film was made at Temple University, Film and Media Arts (2017)